Kids, It's Time We Have THE TALK


Kids, It’s Time We Have THE TALK - because doing the sex-thing or doing the drug-thing can ruin a kid’s life, but NOT doing The God-thing can ruin a kid’s eternity. Catholic dad, John R. VanBuskirk tells his kids about God & God-stuff, Living & Dying, Heaven & hell. He explains the purpose of life to his twenty-something-year-old kids and the importance of getting through life rather than merely being successful in it. Kids, It’s Time We Have THE TALK will help one keep First-Things-First. It will enable one to explain why First-Things are First-Things. It’s the talk parents are obligated to have with kids. It’s the talk each of us is obligated to have with ourselves.

Episodes

  1. About THE TALK Released 13 Feb 2018 Description of audio content that uses teachings from John Paul II, Fulton J. Sheen, Thomas Merton, Mother Teresa, and others. Throughout the audio, John VanBuskirk's central th...
  2. Introduction to THE TALK Released 13 Feb 2018 Opening prayer from Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton. Motivation for Kids, It's Time We Have THE TALK including The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
  3. Ch 1a What Dad Believes Released 13 Feb 2018 My personal mission statement is to make daily strides in becoming a saint and to assist my family, friends, and acquaintances in becoming what God has intended all of us to be ...
  4. Ch 1b What Dad Believes Released 13 Feb 2018 Throughout life, humans pursue Physical, Social, Cognitive, Emotional, and Mystical Essentials & Attractions. There are three classifications of travelers on life journeys:...
  5. Ch 1c What Dad Believes Released 13 Feb 2018 How do you classify yourself - Earthly super-HUMAN? Mystically SUPER-human? Self-centered ANTI-human? JOY is the fruit of being mindful that Life consists of two integrate...
  6. Ch 1d What Dad Believes Released 13 Feb 2018 The Majority Hates Truth & Fears Goodness by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen -modified from Renewal & Reconciliation, ”The Nemesis of Mediocrity”.
  7. Ch 2a Creation Released 13 Feb 2018 Before the beginning, when the beginning began, and after the beginning had begun.
  8. Ch 2b Creation Released 13 Feb 2018 Day 6 - the new Human Being would have the exclusive opportunity to:  Love the world more than any other creature God had ever given life to  Add to what God had created...
  9. Ch 3a Why Was Paradise Lost? Released 13 Feb 2018 What is Love and What is the Opposite of Love? Three types of love described. Sister Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio from The Father Speaks To His Children describes how Jesus is t...
  10. Ch 3b Why Was Paradise Lost Released 13 Feb 2018 A Humanity living without Love lost Paradise. The Holy Spirit however introduces Humanity to a new love principle that motivates us so that we can resist the temptations of the...
  11. Ch 4a Your Living Experience Released 13 Feb 2018 On the Seventh Day of Creation, God told Adam and Eve that He had gifted them with the ability and one-time opportunity to love the world more than any creature He had ever give...
  12. Ch 4b Your Living Experience Released 13 Feb 2018 5) Mystical Attractions and Mystical Essentials described. Also, today, tomorrow, yesterday, and eternity - what I’ve been told to be happy in this world and what drives us m...
  13. Ch 5a Your Dying Experience Released 13 Feb 2018 Living in No Man's Land - What I want read at my funeral (by Thomas Merton From Seven Storey Mountain). My visit to a Trappist monastery where a community is keenly aware that ...
  14. Ch 5b Your Dying Experience Released 13 Feb 2018 What is death and what happens at the moment of death - per The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. If you remember dying each day, death will lose its sting and will no l...
  15. Ch 6 Why I Believe in Life After Death Released 13 Feb 2018 The words of Norman Vincent Peale from The Positive Power of Jesus Christ - a great comfort for those who have lost an aged loved one.
  16. Ch 7a Conflicting Journeys Released 13 Feb 2018 Whereas Living and Dying are integrated and equal, the Earthly and Mystical Journeys are conflicting and unequal. The love of God and the love of the creature are contrary and ...
  17. Ch 7b Conflicting Journeys Released 13 Feb 2018 The mysteries of why God Continuously Thins His Ranks, Works in Minorities, and Chooses the Foolish of the World.
  18. Ch 8a Your Earthly Journey Released 13 Feb 2018 Your Earthly Journey not only consists of striving to achieve the Essentials necessary to resist death and avoid suffering but pursuing all the Attractions that you believe enab...
  19. Ch 8b Your Earthly Journey Released 13 Feb 2018 The writers of The Bhagavad Gita, Lao Tsu who gifted the world with the Tao Te Ching, and Mother Teresa in A Simple Path, as compiled by Lucinda Vardey, describe how to avoid th...
  20. Ch 9 Love, Sex, & Marriage Released 13 Feb 2018 Because your Earthly Journey consists of pursuing Essentials & Attractions, life matters such as love, sex, sexuality, and marriage require consideration. Three Greek types ...
  21. Ch 10 How Can I Love a Church That Hates Me Released 13 Feb 2018 The Catholic Church does not hate those who behave in ways that have been declared contrary to Catholic teaching. Think about it, without a sinful Humanity, there is no Redeeme...
  22. Ch 11a When First Things Are Not First Things Released 13 Feb 2018 Because we both agree that I have no legitimate authority of my own to state what is proper and not proper, I can hand you The Word of God and I can ask you to try answering the...
  23. Ch 11b When First Things Are Not First Things Released 13 Feb 2018 I can pray for God's mercy. I can take on your sins. I can wait. St. Faustina from her diary describes how The Chaplet of Divine Mercy and The Divine Mercy Novena are gre...
  24. Ch 12 Is the World Good or Evil? Released 13 Feb 2018 Excerpts from From Renewal & Reconciliation, “What God Has Done for Us” by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen answers the question the best way anyone possibly can. Also the differ...
  25. Ch 13a Why Good People Suffer Released 13 Feb 2018 The moment Adam bit into the apple, 10,000 triggers of suffering were injected into the world. Why? What should we make of this reality? Includes Hell’s Best Kept Secret b...
  26. Ch 13b Why Good People Suffer Released 13 Feb 2018 A Mystical Invitation that Christ offers each suffering and sorrowful soul - an invitation to join Him, not on the way to The Cross, or under it, but on it with Him. Also a p...
  27. Ch 14 Does Satan & Hell Exist? Released 13 Feb 2018 The real horror of The Exorcist. Description of hell as told by the visionaries of Fatima and Medjugorje, as well as the reality of hell as described by our Blessed Mother and ...
  28. Ch 15a Your Mystical Journey Released 13 Feb 2018 Excerpts from Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain regarding the reality of a Mystical Order and how the logic of the Mystical Journey is completely opposite to the logic of th...
  29. Ch 15b Mystical Beliefs Released 13 Feb 2018 The first key to Heaven, The Holy Mass, as described by Thomas Richstatter, O.F.M from The Catholic Update, “A Walk Through The Mass”. Also promises given to St. Gertrude the G...
  30. Ch 15c Mystical Beliefs Released 13 Feb 2018 The second key to Heaven, The Brown Scapular, as well as its' power as told by Our Lady to St. Dominic and St. Lucia of Fatima. The third key to Heaven, The Rosary, as well a...
  31. Ch 15d Mystical Beliefs Released 13 Feb 2018 The fourth key to Heaven, The Stations / The Way of The Cross as well as the promises given to St. Estanislao by Our Lord
  32. Ch 16a Intimacy with God Released 13 Feb 2018 How do you become a Mystical SUPER-human? How do you achieve intimacy with God? Here’s the Way:  Silence enables Prayer and Contemplation  Prayer and Contemplation en...
  33. Ch 16b Intimacy with God Released 13 Feb 2018 Now that you know The Way of becoming a Mystically SUPER-human Being, what ya gonna do?
  34. Ch 17a Joining the Ranks of The Majority Released 13 Feb 2018 How do we fall away from The Lord and join the ranks of The Majority? Five steps lead to neglect of doing Good:  Neglect of Prayer  Neglect of The Holy Eucharist ...
  35. Ch 17b Joining the Ranks of The Majority Released 13 Feb 2018 Excerpt from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's “The Nemesis of Mediocrity” from Renewal & Reconciliation. Guys, we fall away from God, not because we choose to but rather becaus...
  36. Ch 18 Let's Conclude Our Talk Released 13 Feb 2018 What a wonderful world this would be if The Majority got all this - but God (as we know and for reasons that are His alone) always works in Minorities and never in Majorities. ...
  37. Ch 19 Writer's Conclusion Released 13 Feb 2018 VanBuskirk's true motivation for writing Kids, It’s Time We Have THE TALK Feel free to email comments or questions to John VanBuskirk at: TheGodTalk@yahoo.com
  38. Dedication Released 13 Feb 2018 Kids, It’s Time We Have THE TALK is a talk from a father to his kids. VanBuskirk provides a list of 80 fathers in his life that he dedicated his writing:
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